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The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal made in 1803, in which the United States purchased 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 km²) of land west of the Mississippi River from France for $15 million, or an average of three cents per acre. The purchase...

Natchez Trace is a historic site and park in the United States commemorated by the Natchez Trail Parkway stretching 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi, through northern Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee, roughly adhering to a series...

Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, painting by William Henry Powell, 1853. Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C.

Beautiful Prairie Bluffs, Upper Mississippi, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1836. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

The Mississippi Rifles, under Colonel Jefferson Davis, stop a Mexican charge at the Battle of Buena Vista, watercolor by Samuel Chamberlain as published in his My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue, c. 1860.

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a planter, soldier, and politician from Mississippi, who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861-1865). A veteran of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848...

A collection of photos of Windsor Ruins near Port Gibson, Mississippi.

The Black Codes were a series of racist and discriminatory policies enacted by several former slave states in the United States during the early years of the Reconstruction Era (circa 1865-1877). Rooted in earlier vagrancy laws and slave...

The Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815) was the final major battle of the War of 1812, in which a ragtag American army under Major General Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) beat back a superior British force under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham...

The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the pivotal event in United States history and the largest armed conflict in the Western world following the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) and prior to the beginning of the First World War (1914...